Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Tiger Woods Needs to Keep His Clubs in Their Bag

Each day, more and more revelations are made about Tiger Woods' extramarital love life.

Despite the obvious scumbaggery of his acts, there's absolutely no need for this disgusting, racially-motivated cheapshot from a well-known conservative:
Meanwhile, American right-wing shock jock Rush Limbaugh has caused more controversy by tying Woods' alleged affairs to President Barack Obama and "the black frame of mind" as a whole.

"The black frame of mind is terrible, they're depressed, they're down — Obama's not doing anything for them," he said.

"And I'm sure Tiger Woods’s choice of females not helping them out with their attitudes there either."
Obviously, Limbaugh is desperate for ratings.

Anyway, onto his comments regarding Woods.

Despite appearances, Woods is not simply "black", i.e. African-American in this context. As Wikipedia reveals, he is "one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-quarter African American, one-eighth Native American, and one-eighth Dutch."

He refers to himself as "'Cablinasian' (a syllabic abbreviation he coined from Caucasian, Black, (America) Indian, and Asian)".

So not only does Limbaugh show his ignorance with Woods' ethnic background, he manages to insult African-Americans in one fell swoop. All for a dig at a Democrat president, who, incidentally, comes from a mixed background himself: Obama's father was Kenyan and his mother was an "American of predominantly English descent".

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